Udaipur

After a really, really long drive ( 9 hours) we arrived at the Chundra Palace Hotel.

Beautifully decorated 

With an indoor pool

And an outdoor pool

And a lovely lake view from the roof top terrace.

This is as close as we came to tigers. The carvings represent the negative things one should leave behind when you enter the temple. The hari krisnas were there chanting away.

The Maharani of Udaipur has a huge palace. The family lives in part of it. They have two hotels, a school, a great museum and really nice shops. They have no political power but have buckets of money. They were prepping for a big wedding, another money making source.

 

We finally figured out to tell the tour guide we didn't need to need to see everything on the list but wanted to spend more time in one place. Woohoo! 

We had a great boat ride in the afternoon. This is another wedding venue- mid lake.